Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date (1916)
Forbes, Edith Emerson · Boston, New York : Houghton Miffin Company · leaf 327
And I, said Tom, wont play with SamAlthough he has a top :But here the pretty little lambTo talking put a stop. The Daisy THE GIDDY GIEL Miss Helen was always too giddy to heedWhat her mother had told her to shun; For frequently over the street at full speed,She would cross where the carriages run.… … And out she would go, to a very deep well, To look at the water below;How naughty! to run to a dangerous well, Where her mother forbade her to iro! One morning, intending to take but a peep,Her foot slipped away from the ground; Unhappy misfortune! the Avater was deep.And giddy Miss Helen was…
Nursery rhymes
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